Sara Gartland, Briana Hunter, Patrick Carfizzi & Syndey Mancasola Lead Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s 2025 Season

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The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has announced its 2025 season which will run from May 24 – June 29, 2025 at Webster University’s Loretto-Hilton Center. The season opens with Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” with George Manahan conducting Shawna Lucey’s production. The operetta stars Sara Gartland, Deanna Breiwick, Kelsey Lauritano, Joshua Blue, Edward Nelson, and Johnathan McCullough. Performance Dates: May 24-June 28, {…}

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J’Nai Bridges, Ben Bliss, Marco Jordao, & Patrick Carfizzi in Art Bath Spring 2023 Season

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Art Bath announced its spring 2023 season. The immersive arts salon will host a variety of performances this season, this article will only mention the opera-related events. All concerts take place at the Blue Building in NYC and start at 8 pm. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi will provide vocals alongside instrumental, ballet, and visual arts. Performance {…}

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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: The Barber of Seville

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(Photo credit: Eric Woolsey) “The Barber of Seville” can be tough to sit through. Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) swam upstream furiously against the libretto’s banalities to produce an entertaining show, with standout performances from Justin Austin in the title role, and Hongni Wu as Rosina. In youth, I received as a gift the London/Decca recording featuring Leo Nucci as {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces 2024 Summer HD Festival

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024 Summer HD Festival. the company will present HD recordings on the Lincoln Center Plaza from August 23, through September 2. The free festival will feature ten screenings from the Met’s celebrated Live in HD series and will also include a special screening of the 1998 film “The Red Violin,” directed by François Girard {…}

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Boston Baroque Reveals Cast Change for ‘Don Giovanni’

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Boston Baroque has announced a cast change for its “Don Giovanni.” The company revealed that Michelle Bradley has withdrawn from the showcase due to personal reasons. In her stead, Julie Boulianne will take over as Donna Elvira; this marks her debut with Boston Baroque. Boulianne has performed with such companies as the Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Opéra {…}

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Sidney Outlaw & Susanna Phillips Lead Boston Baroque’s Production of ‘Don Giovanni’

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Boston Baroque is set to present a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The work, which is set to be performed on April 25, 26 and 28 at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, will star Sidney Outlaw in his debut as Don Giovanni, Susanna Phillips as Donna Anna, Patrick Carfizzi as Leporello, Michelle Bradley as Donna Elvira, Maya Kherani as {…}

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Sara LeMesh, Karen Chia-Ling Ho & Zach Borichevsky Lead Florentine Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Florentine Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Karen Chia-Ling Ho leads Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly“ with Adam Diegel, Kristen Choi, and Grant Youngblood. Francesco Milioto conducts the production by Mo Zhou. Performance Dates: Oct. 18 & 20, 2024 Handel’s “Acis & Galatea” will star Sara LeMesh, Patrick Bessenbacher, Matt Boehler, and Jerek Fernández. Francesco Milioto conducts the production by E. {…}

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Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Forza del Destino’ Set for HD Broadcast

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(Credit: Karen Almond/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” is set to be transmitted in Live in HD on March 9, 2024. The production will star Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Judit Kutasi, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the performance. The production is the third Met staging from award-winning director Mariusz Treliński {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: La Forza del Destino

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(Credit: Karen Almond) It’s been a long time since “La Forza del Destino” got a chance on the Met stage. To be exact, it’s been about 18 years. Back then, in 2006, the Verdi melodrama was presented in an imposing traditionally-set production with a cast of Italianate voices. It was supposed to return a decade later in a new production {…}

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Sara Gartland, Briana Hunter, Patrick Carfizzi & Syndey Mancasola Lead Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s 2025 Season

J’Nai Bridges, Ben Bliss, Marco Jordao, & Patrick Carfizzi in Art Bath Spring 2023 Season

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: The Barber of Seville

Metropolitan Opera Announces 2024 Summer HD Festival

Boston Baroque Reveals Cast Change for ‘Don Giovanni’

Sidney Outlaw & Susanna Phillips Lead Boston Baroque’s Production of ‘Don Giovanni’

Sara LeMesh, Karen Chia-Ling Ho & Zach Borichevsky Lead Florentine Opera’s 2024-25 Season

Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Forza del Destino’ Set for HD Broadcast

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: La Forza del Destino